Pass The Popcorn | 1939

A colored people movie house (Rex Theatre) located in Leland, Mississippi, 1939. Now playing: “The New Adventure of Tarzan” (top), The Three Musketeers (lower right)”; and “Out of Singapore” (lower right), and “Last of the Warrens (lower left). Neighboring electrical appliance store (Leland Electric Co.) shown on the left. [click image to enlarge]

A Dollar and Ten ‘Gone…with the Wind,’ 1947

An early civil rights group picket of the movie, “Gone with the Wind,” showing at the uptown Lincoln Theater, Washington D.C. [1947]. Photographer Addison Scurlock, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institute.